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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:26:48
Message-Id: orr7gs$q8l$1@blaine.gmane.org
1 Appropos of nothing, I accidentaly stumbled across larrythecow.org
2 today. It's oddly baffling. The domain is registered to "Domain
3 Protection Services", and (AFAICT) has been since 2005.
4
5 It's a fairly typical-looking site with a header containg Gentoo
6 graphics and a tabbed ui like you can slap together with any of dozens
7 of "site builder" systems. Based on the javascript, it appears to
8 be generated using wordpress.
9
10 There are tabs for "A New Laptop" "Contact" "DMCA" "Hardware" "Legal"
11 "Privacy".
12
13 Each of the tabs contains 8 to 10 pragraphs of what appear to be
14 machine-generated (or machine-translated) English text containing
15 vague, generic advice about buying laptops. The contents of all the
16 tabs are similar but different and have titles like
17
18 "Learn What You Need To Know About Laptops Here"
19
20 "Skilled Suggestions For Obtaining The Best Laptop computer For Your Income"
21
22 "Thinking Of Buying A New Notebook? Go through These Suggestions Initial!"
23
24 "Reliable Suggestions About Laptops That Can Support Any individual"
25
26 "What Needs To Enter Purchasing Your Laptop"
27
28 "The Best Laptop computer Suggestions For Commencing Consumers"
29
30 For 14 months ending in January 2016, the content was updated monthly.
31
32 AFAICT, there are no ads, no trackers, no malware.
33
34 --
35 Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! A can of ASPARAGUS,
36 at 73 pigeons, some LIVE ammo,
37 gmail.com and a FROZEN DAQUIRI!!

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org? Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>